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...leaders of the latest Humphrey-for-President movement, Erie County (Buffalo) Democratic Chief Joseph Crangle and Illinois Congressman Paul Simon. At 1:30 p.m., Humphrey showed them a withdrawal statement. Crangle and Simon asked him to tone it down, to keep the door open a crack. As the three men met, Humphrey got a phone call from unpredictable Jerry Brown. He wanted to join Humphrey in a ninth-inning drive to stop Carter. Humphrey turned him down. At 3 p.m., before TV cameras, Humphrey declared that since Carter "is virtually certain to be our party's nominee, I will...
...that it would be "injudicious if not improper" to ordain homosexuals. After a two-hour session the church reaffirmed its position that "the practice of homosexuality is a sin." However, the delegates also voted to undertake a study of the "perplexing" question of homosexuality, leaving the door open a crack for gays in the future. Said the final report: "We do not believe that a position taken in any period sets forth the final understanding of His Word to the Church...
TIME has learned that just such a plan is under consideration by the Israeli government. It would single out rebellious towns and villages for the embargoing of such things as electricity, food or medicine. In addition, the Israeli reserve troops on the West Bank have been replaced by crack border police, paratroops and other elite units...
...tectonic plates that constitute the earth's surface, they can track the rate and direction of the plate movement, which results in continental drift. With stations on each side of the San Andreas fault, geophysicists will be able to calculate the exact movement along the great crack in the earth's surface, which could aid in forecasting California's earthquakes...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has tried to crack down on corruption. Recently, 17,000 Tehran shopkeepers, butchers, grocers and other small businessmen were arrested for price gouging. A new law combats pol-e-chah by making contractors submit affidavits revealing payments to local middlemen and influence peddlers. Various other laws aim at redistributing wealth. Businessmen must now turn over 20% of their profits to their workers, and employees are allowed to buy as much as 49% ownership in their companies...